Mouse Scroll Momentum Relief

I am sharing this, because it is such a gigantic relief I can't believe it. I'm so excited I have to tell someone who will understand.

On my laptop running X and Firefox it's a regular activity to mouse scroll and then use CTRL-T, CTRL-PGUP, or CTRL-PGDN to change tabs. Unfortunately the scroll momentum is at the mouse level, not the Firefox level so a good portion of the time it interacts with the CTRL and rapidly increases or decreases the scale in Firefox.

GAH!

Well today I got fed up again and gave it a few minutes to try to fix it, and today I found it! synclient has an option for "coasting," which is their word for momentum.

synclient CoastSpeed=0

Oh my god yes.

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Oh yes oh yes oh yes.

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Have a good day.

https://redd.it/m4badd
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Docker image for infrastructure developer

I created a simple docker image with basic tool set for infrastructure developer

GitHub

DockerHub

Welcome feedback and support if you like it!

https://redd.it/m4jnxd
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Let's talk about licenses

So GPL vs BSD, the eternal question. Well I wanted to hear the arguments from both sides, so I'm posting here and on r/BSD (Link). I want to hear why you love or hate the GPL and why you love or hate the BSD license (any revision, but please specify). I also encourage you to comment on the BSD post, but please be civil

https://redd.it/m4lkm8
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Released my first app (a screen recorder)

A few months ago, I posted here on how to contribute to FOSS. Because of your suggestions there, I got inspired to learn programming and this lead to the creation of this FOSS application which took me almost a month to finish.

https://github.com/SeaDve/Kooha

It is a pretty simple app, nothing special. If you want to test it out, it is available on flathub and submitting issues will be appreciated. For now, only GNOME is supported, but in v2.0 hopefully, KDE and such will work.

Also, thanks to the developers who supported and help.

https://redd.it/m4lbah
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Don't like Snaps/Flatpaks? Now, there is an unofficial version of spotify that works with your regular package manager and still keeps up-to-date!
https://github.com/ThePoorPilot/Unofficial-Spotify

https://redd.it/m4mn82
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SpaceVim: use vim as IDE
https://spacevim.org

https://redd.it/m4l6hg
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USB 3.0 Laptop Dock with HDMI

As the noscript says I’m looking for a USB 3.0 laptop dock with a HDMI connection that will work with Linux as well as Windows so I can switch easily between my work and personal laptops. If it supports dual monitors so much the better. Any recommendations gratefully received.

https://redd.it/m4pf9m
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Taking Over an Abandoned GPL/LGPL Project

This isn't strictly Linux related, but I'm hoping you all have experience and can help. I found a project archived on Google Code I'd like to continue. It's a java project with a GPL 2.0 jar and 3 LGPL 2.1 jars. Each source file has a copyright declaration by the authors company.

My understanding is I can use this project as I see fit, and convert it to GPL 3 no problem. And any code I write, I would hold the copyright on. Specifically there's nothing in the project to indicate contributions have to be assigned to anyone. All i have to do is also make my version freely available.

Is that all correct? Can I also rename the project?

https://redd.it/m4ogub
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What happened to k1ss linux and Dylan Araps?

The primary site has lost its domain to a domain squatter.

I checked their github projects and it looks like activity has really dropped off.

Dylan Araps is the guy behind the project.
https://github.com/dylanaraps
His activity declines sharply in late November.

This looked like a really interesting distro, so I'm sorry to see this happen.
I hope Dylan is ok.

https://redd.it/m4pwix
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Looking for certain features in a media manager

Hi all, I am curious to know if there is any media manager software that uses a web page as it's interface? (instead of a client application)

I was just thinking it would be nice to be able to browse my library from my pixel tablet in the living room while my media sits on a server in the basement. or, my wife could browse it from her Macbook. Does that make sense?

Does such a thing exist? (preferably for Ubuntu)

I have no experience with media manager software at all. :)

https://redd.it/m4olsy
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Bootable Kali Linux

So I installed Kali Linux on my pen drive as a bootable drive. That's all good. But what I'm not sure about is, does the data I saved in Kali Linux, got saved in my pen drive as well? or is it somewhere in my computer's hard drive?

https://redd.it/m4sc3n
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Is there ANY way to do this?

Hi, so i have a very old dell chromebook 11. i am not allowed to switch it from beta mode, and it doesnt have the built in linux feature. i dont have any external technology or usb stuff i can use with it. is there ANY way i can get linux on this thing??

https://redd.it/m4q6ci
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Reinventing tabs in GNOME
https://blogs.gnome.org/alexm/2021/03/13/reinventing-tabs/

https://redd.it/m4ueri
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How do i remove corrupted mysql-community-server

I tried purge, i tried force remove, but everything come back with this error

invoke-rc.d: initnoscript mysql, action "start" failed.
Unit mysql.service could not be found.
dpkg: error processing package mysql-community-server (--configure):
installed mysql-community-server package post-installation noscript subprocess returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
mysql-community-server

https://redd.it/m4v291
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Out of The Top 50 Games, 70% Work on Linux Now
https://boilingsteam.com/out-of-the-top-50-games-70-work-on-linux-now/

https://redd.it/m4u5vd
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How to Switch Between Different Back Ends in Haproxy Using Hatop
https://blog.ivnilv.com/posts/how-to-switch-between-different-backends-in-haproxy-with-hatop/

https://redd.it/m4vw0l
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XKB Keyboard layout for writing in Portuguese in the German QWERTZ keyboard

I created a variant for the German QUERTZ keyboard to facilitate writing in Portuguese. I have a laptop that I bought in Germany, and I was motivated by the pain that is to reach the dead tilde (\~) every time to build the nasal vowels. The new layout changes the keys with umlaut Ä and Ö to type ã and õ. Optionally ẞ is changed to type ç. The letters with umlaut still be obtained with `Alt Gr` + `Ä` or `Ö`.

The keyboard layout can be downloaded here:

https://github.com/g7fernandes/german-portuguese-keyboard-xkb

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If some Windows user find this topic, just use the Microsoft Layout Creator.

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Keyword for searchers:

Layout de teclado alemão com til e c cedilha para português.

Deutsche Tastaturbelegung mit Tilde und c Cedille für Portugiesisch.

https://redd.it/m4wdmo
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Checking inbound data via USB connection

Hi guys, I was wondering is there any application for Linux which can "catch" inbound data from USB? I'm creating a program Linux "car monitor" in my raspberry pi, and I want to check data from ODB from my old car, but before this, I want to just know what data can i "catch", and how those data look like. Any suggestion?

https://redd.it/m50p2x
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[Tooling] Memcheck-cover: A valgrind's memcheck tool wrapper and HTML report generator -- v1.2
https://www.reddit.com/r/cpp/comments/m5216w/tooling_memcheckcover_a_valgrinds_memcheck_tool/

https://redd.it/m521r0
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A common issue with using NVIDIA on linux and X11 is that the drivers tend to break for seemingly no reason. I made a guide that might fix that!
https://github.com/devins2518/nvidia-pain

https://redd.it/m4vz8a
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How I earn a living selling my open source software
https://www.indiehackers.com/post/how-i-earn-a-living-selling-my-open-source-software-476f6bb07e

https://redd.it/m54cm6
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